This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the June 2016 issue, which is available here.

Rock ‘N’ Jazz Clinic

Groove Construction

Part 2: More Snare Displacement

In the second part of this series, we’ll continue to create new grooves by displacing the snare drum. We’ll start with a basic pattern that consists of 8th notes on the hi-hat, snare hits on beats 2 and 4, and a funky bass drum phrase.

Jost Nickel

For the complete lesson with transcriptions, check out the June 2016 issue, which is available here.